How to get ‘the’ sound??

[SonicD]

Well, I’m wondering how to get J’s sound, not from the record but from the live shows. You can see that its all cranked marshall overdrive there and solos are muff.

My ds-1 used to do this on my JM’s middle pickup, it sounded close but to shitty and wimpy. So I threw it out of my pedaoboard and added a RAT. It sounds cool, I wasn’t trying to get the sound with it.

So I need a overdrive/dist pedal that makes the cranked marshall sounds.

You know the sound right? Help me out please.

[edoetsch]

Well I’d put J’s soud into 3 areas.

Clean (with nice tube sound)
Fuzzy (Muff)
Hard Tube overdrive.

I think you are looking for the 3rd. If so, I’d check out the Fulltone OCD. Zvex Box of Rock is nice but not heavy enough I think for J’s stuff.

[SonicD]

Yeah youre right about the 3 areas I’m looking for the last one. People have seen J using the OCD in the reuinion tour. But isn’t it like a really soft overdrive? (from what i’ve heard)

[edoetsch]

OCD’s best sounds are mild overdrive with alot of volume to push a vintage tube amp, true.

However, the pedal itself actually has alot of overdrive and gets pretty nasty as you turn the gain up. There are actually complaints that it gets shrill as it is turned up. I don’t think so. I think it is a quite good 80’s "metal" sound. Think harder 80’s metal like Accept, Metallica, Merciful Fate. 1980’s Marshall overdrive when the gain is turned way up. None of the nu-metal scooped sound, like a Boogie.

you’d have to try one out of course

There are clips on the website. Remember Mike Fuller is a classic rock nut so the clips are of course of Led Zeppelin and the such but should give you an idea of pedal-on pedal-of.

[Terrapin]

I know that J is very fond of Lovetone pedals, especially the Meatball and Brown Sauce. But for the most awsome overdrive tone, try a Tonebone Classic distortion – quite simply, the best, with a true bypass.

[FU]

Somewhere on this board is a pic of J’s set-up(the CAE switcher) I believe there were(labeled on board)2 muffs, Bosstone fuzz, various marshall preamp buttons and a/b box for clean dirty? + his effects and a wah. Search it.

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